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I don’t expect Netherlands to be a favourite, even if the odds look decent I strongly feel that they’ll crash out without making it to the semis. Furthermore Brazil squad is covered exceptionally well in each and every department and I just don’t see any other team beating them, and thus if one can get decent odds on
Brazil I feel that they should take their chances and stick with Brazil only during this tournament.
Yeah, absolutely right.
It's just a personal thought that I've always seen the Netherlands so close to winning, but never actually achieving it. I don't think they have a squad worth of winning, but you never know. Football is full of surprises, and that could be a nice one.
You should sleep on Netherlands, they may not be looking like favorites here, but the reality is that they have a great path to be a good team for a while. First they have an easier group than most, then if they finish first then they will face the second of another group which could be a worse team again, and then they will face the team who beats the other one which is understandable and quarter finals would be harder but that's a good path to take, a few good lottery and you get yourself an easy way to go.
I believe that they are not the contenders right now but they are also not a horrible team neither that could end up in finals.